Quotes By Catogory
“God has no religion.”
―Mahatma Gandhi
“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
―Friedrich Nietzsche
“The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding”.
―Louis D. Brandeis
“A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.”
―C.S. Lewis
“The purpose of TRUE religion is not to stifle freedom but to educate conscience because when conscience is educated, you’ll know and understand the responsibility of freedom”.
―B.S.O kpechi
“When the missionaries came to Africa, they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land”.
―Desmond Tutu
“The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority”.
―Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Those who can make you believe absurdities; can make you commit atrocities.”
―Voltaire
“A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal”.
―Mahatma Gandhi
“Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three lasts have never converted any”.
―Frederick William Faber
“Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim”.
―George Santayana
“The fanatic is incorruptible: If he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster”.
―E.M Cioran
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful”.
―Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or in principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe and the opinions on which they will act”.
―Thomas Jefferson
“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich”.
—Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor
“I would have every zealous man examine his heart thoroughly, and I believe he will often find that what he calls a zeal for his religion is either pride, interest, or ill-repute”.
―Joseph Addison
“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
―Garrison Keillor
“I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is”.
―Albert Camus
“Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”
―Dan Brown
“You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself”.
―Swami Vivekananda
“A truth that’s told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.”
―William Blake
“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
―Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven…”
―John Milton
“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education”.
―Theodore Roosevelt
“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.”
―John Lennon
“Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it”.
—Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, English cleric & writer
“Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy”.
―Franz Werfel
“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
―Mahatma Gandhi
“Religion is like a pair of shoes…. Find one that fits for you, but don’t make me wear your shoes”.
—George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian
“The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion”.
—Arthur Clarke
“For me the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree”.
—Mahatma Gandhi
“There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it”.
—George Bernard Shaw
“The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.”
—Malcom X
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction”.
—Blaise Pascal
“Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat”.
―John Morley
“Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand”.
—Karl Marx
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use”.
―Galileo Galilei
“If you’re yet to question what you believe in, review what you’re compelled to incorporate, untie yourself from the things being programmed in your mind, any ‘truth’ sought-after, can’t be found”.
―B.S.O kpechi
“Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.”
—Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani politician
“Religious wars are basically people killing each other over who has the better imaginary friend”.
—Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor
“Prayer does not change God, but it changes him, who prays.”
—Soren Kierkegaard, philosopher
“I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.”
—Khalil Gibran
“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
―C.S. Lewis
“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”
—Dalai Lama
“A man would do nothing, if he waited until he could do it so well that no one would find fault with what he has done.”
―Cardinal Newman
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life”.
–Muhammad Ali
“Fortune sides with him who dares.”
―Virgil
“Taking risks doesn’t mean shirking responsibility, but embracing possibilities”.
―Vick Hope
“Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
―Ralph Waldo Emerson,
“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.”
―Thomas Huxley
“I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents; we’re all teachers – if we’re willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door”.
―Marla Gibbs
“You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.”
―Earl Nightingale
“Everything is a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It’s up to you.”
―Nicola Yoon
“In order to share one’s true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.”
―Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far it is possible to go.”
―T.S. Eliot
“Try new things, step out of your comfort zone, take risks, do things in ways you’ve never done them before, ask for help, surround yourself with self-actualized people, become obsessed with the fact that you have one go-round on this planet as the you that is you, and realize how precious and important it is not to squander that”.
―Jen Sincero
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.”
―Helen Keller
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks”.
―Mark Zuckerberg
“It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.”
―Seneca
“There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long-range risks of comfortable inaction”.
―John F. Kennedy
“When you take risks, you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.”
—Ellen DeGeneres
“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.”
―Billy Wilder
“Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don’t go out on the branch, you’re never going to get the best fruit.”
―Sarah Parish
“The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.”
―Goethe
“Life is too short to be scared and not take risks. I’d rather be the person that’s like, ‘I messed up,’ than, ‘I wish I did that”.
―Justine Skye
“The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!”
―General George S. Patton
“Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.”
―Jimmy Carter
“What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it is another matter.”
―Peter Drucker
“It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.”
―William James
“Never was anything great achieved without danger.”
―Niccolo Machiavelli
“Don’t be afraid to take a big step. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.”
―David Lloyd George
“Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you’re passionate about something, then you’re more willing to take risks”.
―Yo-Yo Ma
“If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can’t be breakthroughs”.
―Peter Diamandis
“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
―Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“You can’t get anywhere in life without taking risks”.
―Esme Bianco
“So, we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”
―Hunter S. Thompson
“There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defence or reserve.”
―William S. Burroughs
“You can say a lot of things about me, but you can never say I don’t take risks”.
―Diego Maradona
“Don’t ever try and be like anybody else and don’t be afraid to take risks”.
―Waylon Jennings
“If you don’t take risks, you’ll have a wasted soul.”
―Drew Barrymore
“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience”.
―Paulo Coelho
“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.”
―Erica Jong, Fear of Flying
“Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks”.
―Mark Twain
“Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.”
―Denis Waitley
“Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.”
―Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper
“The ground beneath you is shifting, and either you get sucked in by holding on to old ways, or you take a giant step forward by taking some risks and seeing what happens.”
―Bonnie Hammer
“My motto in life is ‘Take risks;’ you don’t have a voice if you don’t. You have to venture outside your boundaries. That’s what life’s all about”.
―Kelly Wearstler
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
―Theodore Roosevelt, Strenuous Life
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“Until our mindset changes, nothing will ever change. It’s easy to unshackle the physical chains of slavery, than that of the chains of mental slavery”
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